Word Origin & History

wash late O.E. wæsc "act of washing" (see wash (v.)). Meaning "clothes set aside to be washed" is attested from 1789; meaning "thin coat of paint" is recorded from 1698; sense of "land alternately covered and exposed by the sea" is recorded from c.1440.

Example Sentences for wash away

Have mercy upon him, and give him a penitent heart, and wash away his sin.

Ignorance, which years cannot wash away,—low instincts, what do YOU know?

But all the same she feels that she has sinned and that nothing on earth can wash away the stain.

That ink-spot not all the waters of the German Ocean could wash away.

Then he laid his master's body upon the streamlet's brink, to wash away the blood.

Fires leave the soil unprotected, so that it will wash away quickly.

This will wash away any mucus or fecal matter that may have collected.

These tears will wash away a large part of her suffering from her soul.

I hope we don't get another to wash away the Old Bramble Patch.

The waters deluged the world, but could not wash away the dreadful stain.